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Club Notes: May 10 - News & Observer
News & Observer
The Wake County Democratic Men's Club will meet from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, May 11, at the Holiday Inn Downtown, 320 Hillsborough St., Raleigh. Patsy Keever, chairwoman of the North Carolina Democratic Party, will be the guest speaker. The group will ...
Faces of '15: High stakes, high rewards - Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
But it's no sweat for Mahomet-Seymour graduate Evan Millan, who served as the captain of his high school chess team for two years and has been training to become an air traffic controller for the past four at Lewis University. With plans to graduate ...
Scheske~Wharmby - Gonzales Inquirer
Gonzales Inquirer
Gonzales Inquirer
The brunch menu of eggs benedict casserole, a waffle bar and Juan in a Million tacos was followed by lemon chess and fudge pie from Wimberley Pie Company. The bride's parents are Robert Scheske and TJ Newberry Scheske of Gonzales and Lynn Silver ...
Always Win These Popular Games With Help From Data Visualisations - Lifehacker Australia
Lifehacker Australia
There's even data that suggests you can get an advantage in a regular old coin toss (there's about a 51 % chance of it landing on the same face it was launched). So if you like to be the winner, you might want to start doing some research at the link ...
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Pro: Public Lands Need Cattle to Meet Conservation Goals - Bay Nature
Bay Nature
Bay Nature
They include grasses, such as wild oats, Italian rye grass and soft chess as well as forbs (broad-leaf plants), such as filarees and black mustard. Unless reduced by ... Watershed research examines rangeland management effects on water quality ...
New combination treatment strategy to 'checkmate' glioblastoma - Medical Xpress
Medical Xpress
Medical Xpress
... a person's cancer have been much-heralded in recent years, yet cancer cells often find a way around them. To address this, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center identified a promising ...
New Combination Treatment Strategy to “Checkmate” GlioblastomaUCSD Medical Center
Anti-cancer drugs: New combination treatment strategy to 'checkmate' glioblastomaScience Codex
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Always Win These Popular Games with Help from Data Visualizations - Lifehacker
Lifehacker
Lifehacker
Over at The Washington Post, Ana Swanson gathered up all the game-based data visualizations she could find. From simple games like Tic-Tac-Toe to more complicated games like Chess, there's data to learn from. There's even data that suggests you can ...
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He Rose to the Challenge - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
On the day Ronald Reagan assumed the presidency, the United States faced challenges as daunting as any in its history. The country's globally dominant economy was like an all-but-beaten prizefighter, a giant on wobbly legs, eyes glassed over, swaying ...
How to Rapidly Accelerate Your Learning in 4 Easy Steps - New York Observer
New York Observer
New York Observer
Research shows that IQ isn't all that valuable without a little discipline behind it. So what's going to really ... In the various episodes Tim tackles all kinds of skills from poker to rally car racing to chess — and then puts his new talents to the ...
First-Ever Computer Versus Human Poker Competition Ends in Statistical Tie - 90.5 WESA
90.5 WESA
90.5 WESA
Still, Claudico's performance is seen largely as win for artificial intelligence, which thus far has learned to play chess, drive cars and win at general knowledge competitions such as Jeopardy. “This actually was a milestone event for the field of ...
Poker Pros Rake In More Chips Than Carnegie Mellon's Artificial Intelligence ...PR Newswire (press release)
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New Combination Treatment Strategy to “Checkmate” Glioblastoma - UCSD Medical Center
UCSD Medical Center
UCSD Medical Center
Therapies that specifically target mutations in a person's cancer have been much-heralded in recent years, yet cancer cells often find a way around them. To address this, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores ...
Public Release: 8-May-2015 New combination treatment strategy to 'checkmate ...EurekAlert (press release)
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Poker Pros Rake In More Chips Than Carnegie Mellon's Artificial Intelligence ... - PR Newswire (press release)
PR Newswire (press release)
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., is a distinctive, world-class research university that blends cutting-edge programs across many disciplines including business, computer science, the arts and sciences, engineering and public policy ...
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Konkona portrays Kadambari's loneliness through body language - Times of India
Times of India
Times of India
Before we started shooting, we thoroughly discussed the details of Kadambari's character with Konkona. I gave her inputs from my research finds — like Kadambari was a very good chess player and she suffered from frequent bouts of illness, among others.
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Carolyn Livengood: San Mateo County Jobs for Youth's event to pay tribute to ... - San mateo county times
San mateo county times
Entitled "Finding Success in the New Working World," the event will be held from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Foster City Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1221 Chess Drive, in Foster City. Katie Ferrick, LinkedIn senior manager for community relations, will be the keynote ...
Get Out calendar for Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Yoga for All, Bozeman Public Library Community Room, 626 E. Main St., 11-11:45 a.m. and 12-12:45 a.m., free. Open to all ages and abilities. The morning class is taught by accomplished yoga instructor Karen Averitt and the noon class by local mom and ...
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2016: Can America Defeat Big Money? - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Now there's a chess game investigative reporters should be looking into even from their "cubicle news" ant farms. Americans have ... YouGov was founded in the UK in 2000, and is considered the pioneer of online polling and market research. During the ...
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Why Investors Shouldn't Freak Out Over Facebook's Rising R&D Expense - Motley Fool
Motley Fool
In the company's annual report, under its R&D expense details, management noted, "In 2015, we plan to continue hiring software engineers and other technical employees to support our research and development initiatives." So the continued increase in ...
Written by Patriot Staff - Barnstable Patriot
Barnstable Patriot
Whelden Library: May 9: Book Sale - new and used books, CDs, DVDs, audios books and games, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Route 149 & Lombard Ave., West Barnstable. 508-362-2262. Books by the Sea: May 12: Books for Lunch group meets at 12:30 p.m. at Wimpy's ...
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'Florida Springs' exhibit, reception Friday - The News Herald
The News Herald
The News Herald
Her commissions include projects for series of paintings with residencies in Turkey, Azerbaijan and Oman, enabling her to continue her research for her series, “Doors,” while studying language and dance from the regions of the ancient trade routes ...